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true. It is the vacation place of your dreams. 

At Muskegon you go fishing in a street car; 
you live in a city and breathe country air; the wind blows, 
but there is no dust; the sun is always shining, lout it is never hot. 

Muskegon is a busy, prosperous city of 25,000 people. It 
stretches for six miles along the shores of Muskegon Lake and 
IS only four miles from the beach of Lake Michigan. The west 
and southwest winds, the prevailing hot winds of summer-time 
.elsewhere, are cooled by their seventy-five mile passage over Lake 
Michigan and bring to Muskegon fresh, cool breezes every day. 
The street car system extends from Lake Michigan through the 
city, and for six miles beyond, to the shores of MONA LAKE, 
THE BEAUTIFUL. Within a radius of a dozen miles, and 
all accessible by smooth, good roads, are over twenty smaller 
lakes, a dozen trout streams, and Muskegon River, the largest 
and most picturesque river in Michigan. 

In Muskegon City there are a half dozen hotels, and a large 
!.^ number of private houses where summer guests are entertained. 
The accommodations are suited to any purse. There is no place 
in all Muskegon that the cool breezes do not reach, and shade 
trees line every street. In the heart of Muskegon is beautiful 
Hackley Park with its flowers and ornamental shrubs, its statues, 
monuments, shaded walks and velvet grass. Everywhere through- 
out the city are asphalt and brick paved streets, bordered by 
beautiful houses with well-kept lawns; and everyw^here is the 
tree shade, and always the cool breeze. 




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Muskegon business streets are lined willi modern stores and 
office blocks. Its groceries and markets are as well stocked as 
those in any city. Four banks have on deposit over three and a 
half million dollars. Every street is electric lighted. Telephone 
w ires reach almost every home. Pure w^ater from Lake Michigan, 
SIX miles away, is piped to every house. 

The city street cars run every ten minutes to Lake Michigan 
Park, fare 5 cents. On the way they pass along the edge of the 
bluff that overlooks Muskegon Lake, running for a distance of 
four miles in constant view of the water. Near the end of the 
journey the car leaves Muskegon Lake and plunges into the deep 
shade of the primeval woods, breaking cover again as the sparkling 
blue waters of Lake Michigan flash into view. 

Lake Michigan Park is a natural forest skirting a broad, sandy 
beach. The majesty of the grand old oaks, murmuring together in 
the breeze, overshadows the dancing waves laughing in the sunlight 
and singing as they break upon the sand. As far as the eye can 
reach, the billows are rolling in and breaking in long lines of foam 
upon the beach. Out on the blue, the sails of ships and the smoke 
of steamers mark the path of com- 
merce on Lake Michigan. 

Lining the beach, and 
connected by th*" board 
walk, are a roller coaster, 
restaurants, dancing 
hall, ice cream parlors, 
candy and fruit stores, 
oriental bazarr, band 
stand, theatre, bath 
pavilion, bowling alleys, 
curio stores, and other 
amusement features. At night 

time, thousands of electric "^ ^ ;,, i^g 

lights transform the Park into a Beach 

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In the surl arr a hundrcc] halhers, many of ihem children, for 
the slope of the beach is so gradual that there is no danger of 
getting into water dangerously deep. Diving floats and platfornrjs 
are seen farther out. Along the board walk, and on the whiu , 
clean sand are other hundreds of people who enjoy the coo! 
brei-v^ ^xN'rppintr in as they watch the bathers. 



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A quarter of a mile up the beach are the long piers of "1 he 
C hannel," the entrance to Muskegon Harbor, where are located 
the light-house and life-saving station. Along the piers is a summer 
colony of resorters, fishing for perch. .The" fish bite as fast ,is \\\o 
hook can be baited and make delicious eating. 

As the channel broadens into Muskegon Lake, five miles 
long and three miles wide, a dozen boats are seen bobbing in llic 
water,, filled with fishermen catching white bass on the bar. Mus- 
kegon I_,ake is and always will be, the greatest natural fishing 
ground in Michiv in I in Muskegon River which empties into 
Muskegon Lake live miles above the channel to Lake Michigan, 
is the spawning place lor millions ol h.tss and pickerel every yeai 
Great schools of these game lish come through the channel and 




go up the liver each season. After spawning, they come down 
into Muskegon Lake, and all summer long, fishermen bring in 
great strings of large and small-mouth bass, pickerel and pike. 
Muskegon Lake, too, boasts the famous muscallonge, and every 
season large numbers of these mighty fish are brought to gafl. 
Last season's largest "Muskie" weighed forty-eight pounds. 

Up Muskegon River, reached by launch, are some of the 
finest trout streams in Michigan. Muskegon River, too, is famou; 
for its bass and pickerel. The state fish commission liberally 
stocks Muskegon's lakes and river and her trout streams ever\ 
year with "fry," and owing to rigid enforcement of the law in the 
closed season, the fishing grows better every year. 

For the ladies and children who like to fish, Muskegon Lake 
is a paradise. Blue gills and perch may be caught anywhere 
along the shore, or in any part of the lake. There are literally 
millions of these prolific fish, weighing from a few ounces up to 
two pounds or more. 

After fishing in Muskegon Lake and River and the trout 
streams, there yet remains for the angler another lake, joincil 
to Muskegon Lake by Bear Creek, a wide, deep stream les: 
than a quarter of a mile long and navigable to either launch or 
row-boat. This lake is Bear. The stranger on Muskegon Lake 
might pass its entrance a hundred times without suspecting thai 
less than a quarter of a mile away, beyond the trees, there was 
a lake over a mile long and half a mile wide. The banks ol 
Bear Lake are high and densely wooded and the bottom is deep 
and clean and sandy. The water is clear as crystal, and in its 
depths are the muscallonge, bass, pickerel and pike that have made 
Bear Lake this synonym for "big fish that didn't get away." 

PICNIC QROUNDS 

Returning to Muskegon Lake from Bear, to the left of Bear 
Creek channel, rises a bluff covered with trees. This is the famous 
Interlake Park, lying a little over a mile from the shore of Lake 
Michigan and between Bear Lake and Muskegon Lake. It is a 



strip of high, wooded, level ground lacing a lake on either side 
and swept by the breezes from Lake Michigan on the west. 
Interlake Park has been for ye^rs a favorite picnic ground. Its 
trees rise above a carpet of soft grass without underbrush or 
weeds. From the edge of the bluff on one side can be seen all 
of Bear Lake, and beyond it the blue expanse of grand Lake 
Michigan. On the other side is Muskegon Lake, and from the 
light house at the channel, all along the shore and as far as the 
mouth of Muskegon River, is spread the panorama of Muskegon 
City with her six miles of water front. 

Interlake Park has recently been platted into lots, and now 
without disturbing its natural beauty, it is to be the site of a 
great summer colony. It is reached either by a well-kept road 
around Muskegon Lake, a beautiful ride among the trees, or by 
steamers or launches that run across Muskegon Lake. Interlake 
is within fifteen minutes' boat ride of all Muskegon's stores, markets 
and pleasures, and yet is as secluded from the world as if it were 
ten miles away in the woods. 

BOATING 

Muskegon and Bear Lakes afford not only excellent fishing, 
but other water sports as well. A launch can run for fifteen 
miles up Muskegon River, every turn of the screw disclosing some 
new beauty on the river's banks. The shores of Bear and Mus- 
kegon Lakes may be explored in search of the wild fruits and 
flowers that grow there in profusion, and on a calm day the 
launch may be taken through the channel and run south along 
the shore of Lake Michigan, past Lake Michigan Park and four 
miles beyond to the channel that leads into VUi. . ^ 
Lake. Yachting, too, is a favorite 
sport and is made safe by the-_,; ^- 
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lliOLLEY RIDLS 

Taking a street Ciir Irom any part ol liu- city, and paying a 
fare of only 5 cents, one is carried through the beautiful residence 
section of Muskegon out into the woods, through Muskegon 
Heights and then into the woods again. Curving and twisting 
over the hills, the track runs along, until suddenly to the right, 
water glistens between the trees. In five minutes more the passen- 
ger is landed at Mona Lake Park. 



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JIMUSEMENTS 

At Mona Lake is a pavilion, restaurant, children's pla\ 
ground, bathing beach, and base-ball park. The street car line 
passes them all. Without transfer or change of cars and all for 
1 ! • rent fare, one can ride from Lake Michigan Park to Mona 
Lake, a distance of twelve miles, through beautiful natural scenery 
lor three-fourths of the way. On a summer evening the open 
cars are filled with people who spend two hours making the round 
trip merely for the pleasure of the ride in the fresh, clean air, or 
who stop off at either terminal to enjoy the Park. 



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STEAMBOATINQ 

At Mona Lake Park is the landing for all Mona Lake steamers 
which ply from point to point around the lake. These steamers 
make regular and frequent trips from Mona Lake Landing to 








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Lakr Harbor Hotel on Lake Michit^dii, liiuc [mlfs awciy- 1 Hey 
stop on the way at a half-dozen resorts and summer cottage 
colonies. 

COTTAGES ANT) HOTELS 

Mona Lake is a summer resort of the best class. Along its 
edge are a hundred cottages and hotels. Its shores are beautifully 
wooded and high, free both from mosquitoes and malarial dangers. 
Various parts of the lake are reached by beautiful drives. Mona 
Lake is an excellent fishing ground for bass and is especially 
adapted for casting. Its irregular shore with the wide reaches of 
cool water, lily pads and rushes, make a natural haunt for the 
hungry game fish. On Mona Lake, too, are launches and sail- 
boats as well as the large number of row-boats belonging to the 
cottages and hotels. Mona Lake, like Muskegon and Bear Lakes, 
is stocked annually by the state fish commission with bass and 
pickerel, and like its sister lakes, the fishing grows better each 
succeeding year. 

At Lake Harbor, where Mona 
Lake narrows to a winding chan- 
nel fifty feet wide that empties 
into Lake Michigan a half 
mile away, is a great sum- 
mer hotel. Its verandas 
overlook a wide sweep of 
sloping lawn running to the 
t h e water's edge. A 
shaded walk leads for a half 
mile along the winding chan 
nel down to "The Beach 
where old Lake Michigan 
rolls in her waves. Here are 
bathing pools for the children, a 
pavilion and covered rest seats. 
I he great woods of "Hackley Park" 
stretch away to the southward and the bluffs rise fifty feet above the 
water and shut out the noisy, busy world. 




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All along the channel walk, and failher down ihe beach, are 
cottages and other hotels filled in summer time with resorters. 
Back of the Lake Harbor Hotel is an eighteen-hole golf course, 
one of the best in Michigan, tennis courts, dancing hall, children's 
playgrounds, orchards and gardens; and still farther on is Forest 
Park, a natural wooded fastness where many happy people have 
their summer homes. 

If you want society, you can have it at the summer hotels. 
If you wish cottage privacy, you can buy, build or rent a cottage 
that will fulfill the most exacting demands. 

THRIVES 

From Lake Harbor and from all parts of Mona Lake are 
beautiful drives to Muskegon and to surrounding resorts. The 
country is devoted largely to fruit growing and the well-kept 
gardens and fields are a constant source of delight. 

Near Muskegon, as the maps in this book will show, are 
about twenty lakes, all reached by good roads, and all abounding 
in fish. In the immediate vicinity, too, forming the setting of 
which Muskegon is the central jewel, are a number of other resorts 
accessible by road, train and trolley car, so that the summer visitor 
in search of variety need spend no two days alike. 

Did you ever stop to think what it would mean to take with 
you on your vacation all of the conveniences of home? How often 
have you returned from your summer outing and said: "I'm glad 
to be back in civilization again!" The call of the country, that 
draws men and women from the city's conveniences to the dis- 
comforts and monotony of the ordinary summer resort, is hard 
to understand. 

CJMPING 

But in Muskegon you may take your choice. If you want 
cool breezes and clean air only, you need not leave Muskegon 
City. If you want to camp out or rough it, you can be as 
civilized or live as roughly as you choose. But city comforts and 




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tonveiiiences are never more ihan a half hours ndc away, by boal 
or car. If you are a Irsherman, at Muskegon you may catch 
trout, bass, pickerel, pike, perch, white bass, blue gills and mus- 
callonge, and need not hsh two days in the same lake or stream 
during a solid month of sport. Another important thing is that 
bait is never lacking, Where you rent your boat, thousands of 
minnows are kept swimming in the tanks. 

If you want to spend the summer on a farm, choose a farm 
near Muskegon, where if you grow tired of resting, there is some- 
where to go and something to do. Pitch your tent in Muskegon's 
woods along Muskegon's lakes, and camp out; but remember, you 
can get provision- "r.\n, town" and can have the he'^i lli;il the 
market affords. 

There are no mosquitoes in Muskegon, because there is no 
marshy land, and because the west winds blow them away. There 
is almost every ^1'^ "i ;i!Minrl;.iu c of sunshine that is hdI hnl 
at any time. 

Come to Muskegon this summer and enjoy a true vacation 
for the first time in your life, "with all the comforts of home." 

ACCESSIBILITY 

You can take a Goodrich steamer from Chicago, or a Crosby 
steamer from Milwaukee, every night in summer, and go direct 
to Muskegon without change, arriving at seven o'clock next morn- 
ing. No more delightful trip can be imagined. Or you can 
reach Muskegon by the Pere Marquette, Grand Rapids & Indiana, 
or Grand Trunk Railroads. From Grand Rapids, which is only 
33 miles away, you can take an Interurban car that will land you 
in the heart of Muskegon in an hour and a half, passing Spring 
and Mona Lakes on the way. 

Muskegon offers you her choice of summer outings. It is 
easily accessible both by train and boat, and is not a jumping-off 
place in the wilderness. Come this summer. Bring your fishing 
tackle along. Muskegon will furnish the bait and the fish. Bring 




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your family, Muskegon will take care of them, and if they fall 
sick or meet with accidents. Muskegon's forty doctors and two 
hospitals are at your command; one of them costing $250,000.00, 
being the best equipped hospital west of New York City. If you 
get a toothache, there are a dozen dentists in Muskegon who will 
relieve your pain. If you want plain living and quiet, you cin 
have that. If you want to spend a fashionable summer, you can 
do that, too. If you want to rest, you can be shut off from a 
world that you can yet see. If you want amusement, you can 
go to three theatres, a dozen vaud'ettes, two beaches, over twenty 
lakes, take street car rides, motor over perfect roads, fish, play 
golf, swim, row, sail, listen to the bands, or do anything under the 
sun that suits your whim and fancy. 

You will not be fed on canned goods, condensed milk, dried 
beef and prunes. You will not suffer the dreary monotony of 
unending sameness. 





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Come to Muskegon, spend as much or as little as you like. 
You will get your money's worth for every dollar. Muskegon 
is the ideal summer home or vacation place for men, women and 
children. No member of the family need sacrifice his individual 
taste to suit the rest. There is something for everyone to enjoy. 

The west wind is whispering to-day to the trees along Lake 
Michigan. The m.erry waves are chasing each other on the sandy 
beach. The sun is shining brightly overhead, but it is cool. Out 
in the lake a bass is hungry for your bait; a speckled trout awaits 
your coming in a dark pool on Cedar Creek. I he golf links have 
been rolled and the greens are smoothly cut for you. The first 
tee invites you. The children are wishing for Muskegon; they 
have heard of the broad, white sands, the parks and playgrounds. 
Bring your books and read them under the trees. You will never 
knov/ what "Vacation" means until you have spent "SUMMER 
TIME AMID MUSKEGON'S LAKES." 



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NUMEROUS LAKES AND WATER- 
WAYS SURROUNDING MUSKEGON 
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Summer Resorts may be had by addressing 

PRESIDENT, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 

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